Hurricane Felix is now packing maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (256 kph), making it a potentially catastrophic category 5 storm, the US National Hurricane Center reported early on Tuesday.

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Felix, the second category 5 storm of the 2007 hurricane season, was expected to make landfall in northeastern Nicaragua near the border with Honduras within the next two hours.
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